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computer at the time and orhi killer so I don't quote me on that but they were working with another brand and that all kind of just disappeared and then some of the folks at ek found their way over at Corsair and now we've got hydro X so being the water cooling I want say aficionado I'm gonna say fan boy that I am I tell you right now we are gonna be taking a look at a whole plethora of new stuff from Corsair specifically with our high directs line now unfortunately I'm still under embargo in terms of being able to talk about temperature performance or any of that stuff but we can take a look at the parts up close holy cow all right so obviously okay so we got some fluid here we've got some fans which are no surprises or not these are not water-cooled fans but they're gonna hopefully be static pressure optimized there are maglev 120 fans see the think we got some radiators okay we got a lot stuff to go through so let me let me sort of get this presentable Corsair has spent a lot of time helping code develop a lot of this stuff but they had some partners in crime in all of this so for instance the fluids are made in collaboration with Mayhem's we've got the fittings which are made in collaboration with bits power we'll be taking a little closer look at these I'll open up one or so we've got compressions we've got soft tubing we've got the commander Pro which is designed for controlling the RGB and the speed of the fans you can add it to any case a lot of this comes concluded already with a lot of the higher-end Corsair cases fan hub right there for the RGB stuff we're gonna start with radiator this is made in collaboration with hardware labs so they hardware labs is definitely known for some high-end radiators and this is one of the slim rads I do come in like a small medium large in terms of thickness as you can see out there we've got a nice chrome Corsair sticker on there this looks to be about a medium thin density so it's gonna be a decent amount of trade-off between noise airflow and cooling obviously we'll talk more about how these perform when we're able to do performance testing because like I said earlier today embargo all right so we've got a few fittings going on here we've got some compression fittings this appears to be what says 10 by 13 is it's gonna be a rigid fitting or this gonna be like a soft tube fitting ironically they didn't send me any soft tubing but that's okay so you can see we've got a compression here we've got a barb this goes over the tube collar and then it clamps it down on to the actual fitting itself we've got some elbows we got some what they call XF compressions which are these guys right here let's take a look at the hard line so this is definitely very bits power you looking I can definitely tell they've developed this in collaboration with them but this is a a larger diameter than some of the 12 millimeter stuff that you would get from them but if I'm not mistaken they're going to be available in obviously varying sizes of tubing they also come in four different colors at the time of filming they're gonna come in nickel they're gonna come in black they're kind of kind of blue and come in gold this is an adapter fitting here so as you can see though it's got a rotary fitting on here so this rotates here is a rigid compression this appears to be a 14 millimeter interesting so I'm assuming that's gonna be a 14 millimeter tube right there it's a low-rise compression so sometimes they're they're very tall but this one here is a low-rise you got double o-ring so have an o-ring inside the fitting of an o-ring that goes around the outside of the tube and then as you screw down this compression collar it will squish out that o-ring and then it will make a seal between the flat surface of the fitting and the actual tube itself so we've got some 90 degree elbows 45 volts take a look at the 45 a nice very very tight rotary very indicative of being built in collaboration with bits power because bits power definitely has very tight tolerances and all of their internal or rings now in terms of the fluid we've got two liters of clear right here they're super chilled series once again Hydra X series XL 5 performance coolant it says clear it's a thousand milliliters premix so it's got all your inhibitors your corrosion resistant and all additives in there so you it's gonna be good with nickel copper and it says on the nickel copper and brass and then this is just a flow valve so that you can use it for a drain plug a fill plug your cameraman fill you can turn them on and off by using the style right here so we we made the turn and there's no room to you turn so let's take a look at the tubing right here this is a Corsair tubing hard-line is a 10 by 14 so that means we have a four millimeter sidewall which is that's kind of a small complaint of mine to be honest so by this being a 10 by 14 means that we do have a little bit thicker wall which is kind of nice but at the same time it just means that it's not gonna work your fittings it's not going to work with your obviously your 16 mil so it's just another size to have to really worry about to make sure so that you're not putting the wrong size fittings on there so I'm gonna assume this is the blocks and the pump and all that sort of stuff inside of this Pelican case you ready that's exactly what it is all right so we got the xd5 which is an RGB d5 style reservoir here we've got what looks to be the XC 7 RGB block we got more than one block in here this is a well a CPU water block as you might imagine we've got the XC 9 and then we have got the o2 blocks here the x g7 RGB and the XG 7 RGB so this says 2080 founders edition this one says 20 atti okay so the two different blocks obviously the 20 80 and 20 ATT I do have a slightly different PCV that's okay it's going to open one up and take a look it's been a while since I've done any sort of an unboxing I feel really rusty at it as if I were ever good at it to begin with right all right so here is the block right there it's actually pretty weighty oh that's nice I like that the thermal pads are already pretty applied that's nice I like that right there so with it comes a backplate so as you can see it's brushed it's got the hydro X logo on there but it's very low profile and by low profile I mean the X isn't like a different color it's not yellow thank God when the light hits it just right you've got that nice nice look to it the rest of the block is kind of the same way you've got a mono block here so it's a full cover block it's touching the power delivery the RAM the seep or the GPU core obviously and then I'm not sure what's up front right here I don't think it's more chip so it's probably more power delivery but it's got this this isn't plastic this is metal this is metal right here which has got a sort of a heatsink design kind of built into it so you got wiring underneath this cover which is kind of nice like the skunkworks has a clear block and so this is kind of visible which sort of sucks but what I mean so you can see here that it's terminated with their proprietary plug so you can't plug this in directly to your motherboard and control it through any of that you have to use IQ and their commander Pro or their RGB node or some sort of RGB controller like you see right here on the box from Corsair to be able to control it because of that proprietary plug so that's one thing you need to keep in mind it has not come included with the block so that's gonna be an added cost that you need to keep in mind but you can see right here you've got these screws and you've got a I know I don't want to take it out right now because for the performance testing I don't want to mess with any of this I want to do the performance testing and then do the disassembly the jet plate is removable I guess that is gonna help with manufacturing because they can just make mass manufacture those and then plug them into the different blocks rather than having to mill the whole block out of a single piece of brass so I think it's an interesting unique design I'm kind of curious as to how well that works out you have a flow indicator built into the block as well so as the block is turning if it's in a vertical orientation you'll be able to see it turning so you can make sure you've always got water flow and if you're curious as to how much how fast the fluid is moving that will tell you this is very reminiscent of like their Dominator series ram tops if you remember those the Dominator Platinum's it looks very very similar to that so if you had Dominator Platinum's in your system this would sort of match so there's the block which I I like this because one of the things that's difficult in just like computer cases there's only so many ways to build a rectangle there's also only so many ways to build a water block so this is nice to see and it's just different let's take a look at this guy now this is their water pump reservoir combo this is actually like an injection molded plastic which is different than the typical acrylic route a lot of people go and I'm really curious to see how the long-term testing on this goes because the problem I've always had is once the acrylic gets wet and if you drain the system and then you let the acrylic sit out you start to form these very tiny kind of a Mike micro cracks in them and it just has something to do with the dehydration at that point like I mean it's not porous by any means but somehow some way when the acrylic gets wet and then it dries out it tends to get those little tiny cracks and sometimes those tiny cracks can turn into much larger cracks so by them going with this different type of plastic I'm wondering if that's directly because of that effect that has taken place with the acrylic so there it is right there it's very lightweight that's one of the things I'll say right off the bat it's got plastic on here protecting it it's because its injection molded plastic and it's not acrylic it's a lot thinner and it's a lot lighter watch pill stick your hand out and hold that that's yeah yeah like yeah definitely but it is using a d5 pump which you can see is mounted directly to it so it is a combo we've got multiple fitting locations here going around we've also got two on the top and it does of course have RGB lighting and they already have a pushdown tube on the inside so that if you are returning to the reservoir from the top it'll push the fluid down into the fluid level so you don't have a waterfall effect which you could introduce air you also have this kind of a spiderweb looking thing inside which is going to be an anti venturi but I guess a lot of the light weight from this too comes from the fact that this is also a plastic mount for the pump whereas typically a lot of brands we use acetal or palm material or whatever which is a very dense plastic here's one of the mounts that just go through here go over the pump and then you screw it right directly to those those rubber standoffs which are anti-vibration pads you even have a temperature sensor plug that comes with the reservoir so you could put this in the back and monitor your actual temperature of your fluid which is something that doesn't come with any other reservoir on the market short of aqua computer and I think that's because you can buy a kit that includes it not directly with the reservoir so and the last thing to look at here are the CPU blocks which interestingly enough is two different part numbers based on the socket that you're using so we've got eleven fifty six or eleven fifty X here or AMD AM for compatible or Intel LGA 2066 which technically is also twenty eleven that's funny that's not listed there and AMD tr4 but what they want to talk about real quick since we are talking about the size of the blocks is I forgot to mention what the GPU block that because they're using this Universal core that can be swapped out for the cooling plate it is not entirely full coverage on the T u whatever the 2080 T is I don't think that's gonna necessarily be an issue but again one of those things that we're going to talk about in temperature testing because they have to have room for the screws it takes up some of that cooling area so that is one thing we'll definitely want to compare as we take off a twenty eighty or twenty eighty TI and and mount it is to kind of measure and see what the difference in size is look at the interesting application of that thermal paste it's like a honeycomb okay I definitely don't wanna mess any of that up because for testing I want to see how well that performs but as you can see you've got your Intel bracket you've got your AMD bracket got your hold downs your rubber standoff so you don't bridge on the back here motherboard and then of course all of your mounting hardware so it's going to compare the size of this guy to the other one point is that larger really huh but which you can see right here though is that we do have the mounting already applied like to the bracket right there and then if you need to use TR for it comes with a completely separate mount right there for that so there you go guys there is the unboxing and first look obviously all of these parts are RGB I can tell you I've had lots of conversations with them I Oh get worried anytime a new brand goes work and but I know of course there's not a new brand but they are new to open-loop water cooling typically they were using a Sutekh derivative a iOS and stuff which is very simple because it's sealed and worried about the user end-user that we're about testing mixing because here's the thing you might just buy the block and then you're putting in other parts and other coolants and they've got to ensure compatibility as best that they can control obviously if you use all of the corsair eco system their fluids their tubing their fittings their blocks you're gonna have the best compatibility and the best long life of the fluid but what they did was tons of testing to make sure that there wasn't gonna be any sort of compatibility issues with other products on the market so they had a huge laboratory set up with tons and tons of testing going on temperature controlled environments extremely cold extremely hot mixed metals and my mixed metals I mean brass copper nickel not aluminum I don't know if they're coming out with a new aluminum series stuff but that's a topic for another day so I can tell you that I'm expecting positive things out of this because they did the right thing at CES by delaying the launch so that they could make sure that everything was as ready as it could possibly be so we'll be testing this out in June perfect month for all this that's gonna be nice and warm but yeah I just want to open this all up and make a huge mess in my new set that I now have to clean up so that you guys could kind of get a first look at this because as the summer months roll around not only do more people build computers and upgrade they also build water-cooled systems to keep things as cool and as overclocked as possible alright guys tell me what you think about Corsairs hydro X line of water cooling parts down in the comments below and as always we'll see you in the next one out of here and then and then ah and then dominic toretto drive no one likes the tuna here